# Worst Christmas gifts EVER! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950 "2011-11-14T23:44:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/81 "2011-11-17T16:55:52Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Since I was about 15, I instituted a rule I try to keep to every year: after Halloween, do not express a critical opinion about anything I could conceivably receive as a gift. [rant] Women, please, please do this. One year, many Christmases ago, my wife said she wanted a certain type of perfume. I couldn’t find it, so I enlisted the help of one of my female friends, who managed to track it down somewhere. My wife was delighted. It was a tiny bottle, and she doesn’t wear it often, maybe a couple times a week, but she would run out every other christmas so I would spend days going to diffefent department stores looking for this stuff. She always acted liked she loved it. Two years ago. The usual small box is under the tree. Christmas eve my wife says something like “I really, really hope that isn’t perfume again. That stuff just gives me a headache.” What? You wear it… you say you like it… has been this way for 7 or 8 years… its kind of a christmas tradition… Men cannot read women’s minds! [/rant] ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/82 "2011-11-17T17:02:33Z")
**Lancia** , that reminds me of the one time, back when parachute pants and leg warmers were fashionable, that I sort of maybe mentioned that I liked caffiene-free Coke to my mother. She now buys a case of it for me every year. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/83 "2011-11-17T18:21:34Z")
We have key lime pie every Thanksgiving and for my every birthday, because once, when I was actually in the Keys, I had some and remarked that I liked it when I got home. That was over 15 years ago. Apparently my mother thinks it’s like my favorite thing to eat, ever. I’m really tired of it, and don’t care if I ever see another key lime pie. There will be one again this year at Thanksgiving. I can’t escape it. My worst gift was from a guy I had dated, but I eventually married his best friend. He had a picture someone had taken of me with my eyes half closed (thus looking horrible) put on a coffee mug as a “joke”. That guy’s nickname should have been (and probably still should be) Mr Passive Aggressive. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/84 "2011-11-17T20:23:40Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > OMG, [so disturbing](http://whydidyoubuymethat.com/post/12556984960/you-are-looking-at-my-25th-birthday-present-from). > > SFW, but to describe it would ruin it. WTF. I read the description and I’m just baffled. What the hell would you DO with that?! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/85 "2011-11-17T20:26:42Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > WTF. I read the description and I’m just baffled. What the hell would you DO with that?! Burn it? ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/86 "2011-11-17T20:41:46Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > WTF. I read the description and I’m just baffled. What the hell would you DO with that?! It could be the male version of a Teddy Babe (which are anatomically correct plush female sex dolls). ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/87 "2011-11-17T22:29:38Z")
My dad suggested I buy my mum a bedside rug for her birthday. I did, and I found out he used it, giving her back her worn out rug he’d been using because his had worn out. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/88 "2011-11-17T22:36:21Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Used sex manuals, from my parents, with folded down pages and highlighted passages. I sincerely hope there weren’t any pages stuck together. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/89 "2011-11-18T00:45:33Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > I sincerely hope there weren’t any pages stuck together. :eek: Just when I thought the mental image couldn’t get any worse. :smack: The most wtf gift I’ve gotten was an eyelash curler. ([This thing](http://www.amazon.com/Shiseido-The-Makeup-Eyelash-Curler/dp/B000FNF5IO).) I have naturally curly eyelashes. I never wore makeup at the time. My aunt meant well, she was just slightly… misinformed. She’s our family’s Martha Stewart and usually has spot-on gifts for everyone, which made it even stranger. ---
**Author:** ![Noodles\_Fellicini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Noodles\_Fellicini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noodles_Fellicini)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950/90 "2011-11-18T03:46:33Z")
One year my (now ex-)husband and stepsons made a big fuss over their Christmas present to me. I unwrapped a good-sized velvet box but instead of jewelry it contained one of those cheap nickle ball chains, only instead of key chain length it was long enough to be a necklace. Boy oh boy did they ever think it was funny how they went to the trouble to fool me into thinking I was getting a nice gift. And no, they didn’t say they were kidding and replace it with something else, that was my gift. Still stings to think about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-gifts-ever/602950.md?page=4)